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How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?
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How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?

...skills aren't a bar to understanding your rights when arrested...“You have the right to remain silent” is an expression familiar to many English speakers. But what is involved in understanding this right in police interviews, as well as the consequences of waiving the right? Extensive research on comprehension of this and other rights delivered to suspects shows that...
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Making Social Worlds
Society, Politics & Law

Making Social Worlds

...skilled migrants can end up in unskilled jobs because of language problems. Keep multiculturalism Why Australia should continue to be multicultural. Embracing Australian culture Why the willingness to embrace Australian culture brings benefits. An academic perspective on passports Liz Mc Fall describes The Open University course structure, concentrating on the issue of...
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First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...skills, knowledge and understanding as they participate in activities including preparing a ‘visual essay’, taking part in online negotiations and developing their own proposals for an innovative entrepreneurial venture...First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: examine personal pre-existing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What makes people happy at work?
Money & Business

What makes people happy at work?

...skilled and where the organisation is well-meaning. Some of the big retailers for example, where often the shifts are flexible. The second main group is people who have skills their employers really need, and they often have to go through an individual process of negotiation but can in the end get quite good terms. It's less easy to categorise people who do have...
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The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute
Society, Politics & Law

The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute

...skills in trade union organising, in building campaigns and solidarity across the trade union movement. These skills and their experiences changed these women and the outcome of the dispute. Relevant Sources and Further Reading https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12174549.hospital-chaos-looms-in-dispute-medical-secretaries-to-ballot-on-strike-action-over-wages/ Accessed...
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Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?

...Skills for Everyone) and the Omega Course, where people come together to think about their own lives and death and learn how to support others. Evaluation of these courses has shown that they reduce fears around death and dying, help people to consider and plan for their own death, and increase their confidence to engage with friends, family and community members who are...
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Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...skills and talents can take us as high as we wish to fly.It is stories like Johnson’s that need to be told. Where are our role models today? Where are the women who will inspire our students to become scientists and engineers? As an example, in 2019 the BBC published a list of 100 trailblazing women, of which only four were scientists and just one an engineer. Johnson...
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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...skill of mindfulness can help us to notice the opportunities we may miss when we are caught up in our thoughts and feelings. You can learn to just simply notice the thought is there and stop fighting with it. For more on mindfulness, please see Five Reasons Why You Should Care About Mindfulness. Active Learning what matters most to us and then pursuing these things, no...
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